Born Port Chester, New York
Education B.F.A. cum laude University of Utah
Lives and works near Boulder, Colorado
Chances Are, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles CA
This Bright Day, Robischon Gallery, Denver CO
Staring Into the Fire, University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder CO
Curator: Sandra Firmin, Executive Director/Curator; with contributed Essay
The Very Thing, VonLintel Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Repositioned, Robischon Gallery, Denver CO
All At Once, Orth Contemporary, Tulsa OK
8 Exhibitions in Abstraction, Robischon Gallery, Denver CO
Out of Line, Robischon Gallery, Denver CO
Lined, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe NM
The Fruit Stare, Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, Durango CO
The Spaces in Between, The Nicolaysen Museum of Art, Casper WY, Curator: Lisa Hatchadoorian
One Big Dream, Plus Gallery, Denver CO
Overhead, Rudolph Projects, Houston TX
Watershed, Plus Gallery, Denver CO
Fringe Element: My Piece of the Sky, PlatteForum, Denver CO
Hallucinating With Vigor, Rudolph Projects, Houston TX
Delirious, Plus Gallery, Denver CO
Everything, Museum of the Southwest, Midland TX
Recent Work, Rudolph Projects, Houston TX
Inhale, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe NM
Recent Works, Rudolph Projects, New York NY
Inhale, Diverseworks, Houston TX
Monkey Mind, Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, Durango CO
Blue Sky, College of the Mainland Fine Arts Gallery, Texas City TX
Carried Away, Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston TX
Container of Meaning, Fotofest, Houston TX
Rings, Balls, and Trees, Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco TX, Curator: Heidi Hornik
Requiem for Huge Oaks, Diverseworks, Houston TX
Kate Petley, Derrick Velasquez Robischon Gallery, Denver CO
Construct: Kate Petley and Rusty Scruby, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe NM
Similar Differences: Kate Petley and Sheila Klein, Art League Houston, Houston TX
Recent Works, Slover McCutcheon Gallery Houston TX
Lighten Up, Collaborative with David Carpender, The McBride Series, Houston TX
Kate Petley and Michael Whitehead, Longview Museum of Art, Longview TX
From the Source, Farah Damji Fine Art, New York NY
Recent Work, Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi TX Curator: Jim Edwards
Digital Vision, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Curator: Matthew Klube
Luminous: Painting in the Interface, Nightingale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University Curator: Scott Gleeson
On Screen/Off Screen: Contemporary Abstraction and Technology, Kate Petley, Lorraine Tady, Liz Trosper Orth Contemporary, Tulsa OK
Does Not Reproduce, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Colorado Abstraction +10, Arvada Center for the Arts, Curator: Collin Parsons
Limitless Space, Orth Contemporary, Tulsa OK
How to Flatten a Mountain, PhotoIreland, Rathfarnam Castle, Dublin
Radial, Robischon Gallery, Denver CO
Recent Prints from Manneken Press, Wakeley Gallery at Illinois Weslayan University, Bloomington IL
Declaration, Viewing Room, Robischon Gallery, Denver CO
Learning to See Color, Denver University Vicki Myhren Gallery, Curators: Dan Jacobs, Jeffrey Keith
Colorado Women in Abstraction, Center for Visual Art, Denver CO, Curator: Michael Paglia
New Work, Robischon Gallery, Denver CO
New Prints 2014, International Print Center New York at Christie’s New York
Colorado Contemporary, Curfman Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO, Juror: Nora Burnett Abrams, MCA Denver
Materialized, Robischon Gallery, Denver CO
Construct: Kate Petley and Rusty Scruby, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe NM
New Mexorado, The Harwood Museum,Taos NM Juror: Libby Lumpkin
Specific Environments: Landscape as Metaphor, Lincoln Center, Fort Collins CO, Curator: Leanne Hasse Goebel
4 x 4, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Curator: Caitlin Green
The Best Choice, Houston Arts Alliance and City Hall, Houston TX, Juror: Emily Todd, The Houston Endowment
Similar Differences: Kate Petley and Sheila Klein, Art League Houston
Hot Pursuit: Eight Artists from Southwestern Colorado, Adams State College, Alamosa CO, Curator: Jerry Riggs
Exposed: Selected Artists, Cultural Arts Council of Houston Harris County
Rocky Mountain Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins CO
Surfaces, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Ft. Worth TX
Plastic Fantastic, Exhibit A, New York NY
Luscious, Judish Fine Art at Andenken Gallery, Denver CO
Archipelago, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Curator: Ann Shostrum
Reaction, Exit Art, New York NY
Sky, Arvada Center for the Arts and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
The End of History, Judish Fine Art, Denver CO
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Art 2000 Juror: Bruce Guenther
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA
Fotofest 2000, Site-specific Installation, Houston TX Curator: Wendi Watriss
Los Angeles National Juried Exhibition 2, Spanish Kitchen Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Second Texas Annual, The Contemporary Art Center, Fort Worth TX
The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX
‘O’ A House Installation, with Dan Havel and Dean Ruck, Houston TX
The Evocative Object, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington TX
Kate Petley and Michael Whitehead, Longview Museum of Art, Longview TX
Low Tech, CRCA, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington TX, Curator: Sue Graves
The Texas Biennial, Fair Park, Dallas TX
Recent Work, Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi TX, Curator: Jim Edwards
Sculptors Known and Underknown, One Allen Center, Houston TX, Curator: Sally Reynolds
13th Annual Outdoor Exhibition, Nelson Sculpture Park, Abilene TX
Ostrow, Saul: Digital Vision, Essay for Exhibition, Grinnell College Museum of Art
Gluckstern, J.: Kate Petley: Staring into the Fire, DARIA Denver Art Review Inquiry & Analysis, Fall Issue
Moody, Tom: ‘On Screen/ Off Screen: Kate Petley, Lorraine Tady, & Liz Trosper at Barry
Whistler Gallery’ Glasstire July 31
Ross, Deborah: Artist Turns Curator to Unpack ‘The Stubborn Influence of Painting’
Southwest Contemporary July 12
Ollman, Leah: Artists Spend Months, Even Years, Working on a Gallery Show. What if No One Sees It?
LA Times April 30
Aline Smithson and Val Patterson, Kate Petley ‘The Very Thing’ Lenscratch March 12
Hunt-Duran, Samantha: Serra, Voisine, Westfall, Petley, Velasquez: DARIA Denver Art, Review Inquiry & Analysis, January 16
Kate Petley, Interview with Liz Miller, Liz Miller Artblog
Paglia, Michael: Robischon Gallery Presents Serra and Four More Artists, Westword Denver
Paglia, Michael: Five Solo Shows Offer Abundance of Abstraction Westword Denver May 29
New American Painting Issue134 Juror: Valerie Cassel Oliver, Virginia Museum of Fine Art
Gleeson, Scott: Merge Down: Reconsidering Flatness Within Kate Petley’s Nomadic Pictorial
Spaces, Peripheral Vision Publication Fellowship, Dallas TX
How to Flatten a Mountain, Patterson, Val; Lenscratch August 5
Paglia, Michael: 8 Solos Add Up to a Major Look at Contemporary Abstraction
Westword Denver January 25
Vasari21 Feature Interview by Ann Landi April 26
Kinetic: Highlights from the Polsinelli Art Collection, Forword by Barbara O’Brien, Executive Director, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Paglia, Michael: Getting the Most Out of Minimalism, Westword Denver June 2
New American Painting Issue 114 Juror: Nora Abrams, MCA Denver
Paglia, Michael: Conceptual Abstraction, Westword Denver February 19
sketch24blog, Featured Post July 13
Froyd, Susan: 100 Colorado Creatives, Westword Denver June 11
Studio Visit Magazine, Juror: Jonathan Greene, New York NY
Goebel, Leanne: Specific Environments Landscape as Metaphor, Catalogue Essay
Abatemarco, Michael: Binary Visions, Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican June 15
Studio Visit Magazine, Juror: Beth Venn, Newark Museum, Newark NJ
The Huffington Post: Goebel, Leanne: What’s Missing from Colorado’s Top Ten List Jan 4
Berkovitch, Ellen: Contemporary in Denver, Adobe Airstream October 24
Hatchadoorian, Lisa: The Spaces In Between, The Nicolaysen Museum of Art, Catalogue Essay
Phelps, Janet: Similar Differences, Art League Houston, Essay for Exhibition
Keppler, Nick: Through the Looking Glass, Houston Press January 3
New American Painting Issue 66 Juror: Ian Berry, Tang Museum of Art
Greene, Alison: ‘O’ A House Installation at Ten Years, Gulf Coast Fall Issue
Temple, Georgia: Artist Tackles Small Details, Midland Reporter Telegram May 22
New American Painting Issue 54 Juror: Lynn Herbert, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX
Murphy, Laurie Lynnxe: Profile Kate Petley, Eye Level, Spring Issue Denver CO
Indyke, Dottie: CCA Installation Exaggerates Vulnerability of Humans, Albuquerque Journal
Winslow, Kate: Inhale, Interview for Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe NM
Paglia, Michael: Good Heavens, Westword Denver November 8
Chandler, Mary Voelz: Abstraction Meets Realism, Denver Rocky Mountain News June 2
Wilson, Wade: Inhale, Essay for Diverseworks, Houston TX
Anspon, Catherine: Kate Petley Carries Us Away, Houston Public News December 11
Dewan, Shaila: A Gift to be Simple, Houston Press March 13
Johnson, Patricia: Full Frames, Houston Chronicle March 14
Peters, Patrick: Casa Lucida, Casa Obscura, Rice University Cite Magazine
Wilson, Wade: Evocative Object, Essay for Exhibition, Arlington Museum of Art TX
Merino, Tony: Evocative Object at the Arlington Museum of Art, Artlies September
Kutner, Janet: Object: Evokes the Fragile and Unique, Dallas Morning News July 19
Smith, Stephanie: ‘O’ A House Installation, Artlies July
Ward, Elizabeth: ‘O’ A House Installation, CRCA Magazine Winter Issue
Johnson, Patricia: The Art Shack, Houston Chronicle April 29
Kutner, Janet: Artists Take the Low Tech Road, Dallas Morning News June 5
Graze, Sue: Low Tech, CRCA Magazine, University of Texas Arlington
Johnson, Patricia: Sculpture on the Green, Houston Chronicle October 14
Edwards, Jim: The 13th Annual Sculpture Exhibition, Essay for Exhibition, Abilene TX
George, Ron: Contemporary Art Invades Coastal Bend, The Corpus Christi Caller Times
Edwards, Jim: Kate Petley and Kent Rush, Essay for Exhibition, Museum of South Texas
Hornik, Heidi: Rings, Balls, and Trees, Exhibition Essay, Martin Museum Baylor University, Waco TX
University of Colorado Art Museum (CUAM), Boulder CO
The Museum at Texas Tech University
Houston Airport System
Stanford University, Palo Alto CA
New York Presbyterian Hospital
The Nicolaysen Museum, Casper WY
The Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City MO
Polsinelli LLC, Dallas and Houston TX, Chicago IL, and Denver CO (Catalogue)
Fidelity Investments, Denver CO and Boston MA
UCLA Hospital Santa Monica CA
Denver Children’s Hospital, Denver CO
The City of Houston
The Ritz Carlton, Hyatt, Marriott, and Caesar’s Palace Hotel Corporations
Propriety Capital, Denver CO
Morgan Stanley, San Francisco CA
Vail Industries, Chicago IL